Sous le Pont Mirabeau

The Perfume House Verified independent store

→

A poem as slow as it is violent, expressing the brutal and desirable hope of the one who would like to believe, of the one who wants to love. Vanilla, I write your name on the wate r, with muffled traces of incense and violet green. There is one that needed neither dances, nor battles, nor works of genius to impose itself on our memories: it is the Mirabeau Bridge. For this, twenty lines were enough. It must be said that they were written by a poet, and that his poem was about love, unhappy love. When Apollinaire composed it, the Marie he loved had left him. But we can only guess at their story, which he does not tell, and is it not the story of so many lovers? Love has fled, like water and like the days. The perfume which will bear the name of the Mirabeau Bridge had to translate its force, because it resists the flow of the Seine and time, it is the impassive witness as it underlines the final resumption of the first verse; but the delicacy of the fragrance, mixed with this base, conveys the melancholy of lost loves, while also imposing a sharp note suitable for testifying to the "violent hope." Perfumer(s): Mathieu Nardin Notes: Italian bergamot, pink pepper, elemi, fig accord, incense, aquatic accord, ozonic accord, violet green, Virginia cedar, vanilla, sandalwood, orcanox™ upcycled, musks Show more